Donald Trump’s racist agenda is emboldening a vicious far-right, and Theresa May has announced he will be coming to Britain later this year. This event is a major opportunity to tell the government that Trump’s racism is not welcome here. In Britain, migrants and refugees are being scapegoated for the effects of austerity, while EU nationals are used as bargaining chips in Brexit negotiations. The whipping up of anti-Muslim hysteria in the press has led to a dramatic rise in Islamophobic attacks in the wake of terror attacks in London and Manchester, with visible Muslim women the primary target. Rampant institutional racism is being felt through a spate of deaths in police custody, the tragedy at Grenfell and systematic discrimination in employment and Hosuing. Meanwhile In Europe, the rise of the Freedom Party in Austria, Front National in France and AfD in Germany are signs of a resurgence of the far right which requires a serious and coordinated effort to turn back. If we are to defeat the rise of racism, we need a united movement of everyone who opposes it. The #MarchAgainstRacism is a chance to bring that movement together and show that we will not be silent. In the face of this historic challenge we need to make 2018’s march the biggest yet.
Do note that this is a liberal march organised by an SWP front (stand up to racism), but it can always be useful for more radical antifascists to form a bloc in liberal protests like these.
Alerta UK Antifascists! Donald Trump’s racist agenda is… SOURCE: antifainternational.tumblr.com]]>
